THE BLOG
- 2am
- A building fund fish fry at Ebenezer Baptist
- The top of a black baby’s ears
- “Roots”
- Watching “Eyes on the Prize” on a 13-inch B&W kitchen TV
- Eating fried okra with a side of julienne Jet Magazine pages
- Calling your cousin “Cousin Candy” because she’s 55 years older than you
- Writing a list of things less black than “Formation”
- The first draft of “A Raisin In The Sun”
- A praise dance choreographed to “Lift E’vry Voice and Sing”
- Songs with mid-word apostrophes in the title (^^^^^)
- Having strong opinions about potato salad while also being mad that so many articles are written about black people and potato salad
- A Radio Raheem neck tattoo
- Halftime at LSU vs. Grambling
- The phrase “outside kids”
- A Madame CJ Walker hoodie
- Any character written specifically for Regina King
- Frederick Douglass’s side part
- Placing a cognac ad in the North Star Ledger
- Freaknik
- The back-up jar of cocoa butter
- Knowing who Vondie Curtis-Hall is
- Stacey Dash’s King Magazine cover
- Anybody’s King Magazine cover
- Claiming to be “part Cherokee”
- Brown gel
- Your great aunt’s insistence that you’re related to every famous black person
- Spike Lee’s diary
- Putting 1B in your 4C
- Wishing a m***f***er would
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